Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary artist creating light sculpture installations and other multimedia projects around the world using light and space to create her artworks. Inspired by natural environments, cultural sites, architecture, and technology, she creates bodies of work that illuminate our notion of personal identity and community.
Her works are not about light itself but about its perception, and uses advancements in technology to render changes in light perceptible. Besides physical space and volume, Grimanesa Amorós also creates a space of perception between her objects by activating the light on the surface. Time and space are crucial for Grimanesa Amorós, in particular when she develops site-specific works that react with absolute precision to the circumstances of the chosen place. In Grimanesa Amorós’ light sculptures the spatial structure is supplemented by a temporal one: as in a musical composition, a program controls the LEDs’ intervals.
Fusion with nature turns up in many of her works, not just in the videos, but also very concretely in her site-specific light installations. Grimanesa’s main sources of inspiration are drawn from nature, focusing on how humans have adapted to live in a wide range of environments. Having a historical understanding of a space informs her creative process. The exploration of the communication between humanity and nature is one of the driving factors in the work. The projects are site-specific and present an immersive experience to the architectural spaces.
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Light Sculpture Art
Light Sculpture Art is an art form where light is the main medium of expression, and the sculpture is the one displaying the light. These sculptures can be temporary or permanent, and can exist in two distinctive spaces: indoor galleries, such as museum exhibits, or outdoors at events like festivals. Immersive large-scale installations of creative lighting art develop the mentioned above thoughts bringing out new verges of experience through the visual media. Light art can be an interaction of light in an architectural space. Light artists are those that devote all their creative experimentation to light art.
Creative Lighting Installation by Grimanesa Amoros
Grimanesa Amoros is an artist working in light sculpture art with pieces on display around the world. Every site-specific public work illuminates the space with creative lighting in immersive large-scale installations. Through her art she conveys an ephemeral wonder, entrancing the viewers from all different backgrounds.
Being born in Peru, she finds inspiration in many cultures and places all around the globe, including Africa, Middle East, Europe, South America, and Asia. As a renowned light installation artist, she gives interviews, lectures, and participates in various exhibitions.
Grimanesa Amoros’ artistic ability are not limited to light sculpture art; she has a history working with the medium of paint, photography, and other mixed media materials.
She is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research, and critical theory.
